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So I was on my way home from work. Just to let y'all know, I have a bug. As in a VW Bug. As in, "I really hope this isn't the best of German engineering" type of car. It has some... issues. Right now I'm dealing with random loss of power steering, and power brakes. I like to keep a buffer zone going on. All of this is relevant, I promise. 
But anyway, I need to pass this truck before I get close enough to count as tailgating. So I check my mirror, and signal I'm getting in the other lane. I have enough room to get in the lane, even if you account for different speeds and whatnot. (I hate it when someone gets in the left lane in front of you, even though you were obviously going to need to do some serious braking if they did.) I get over and I go to pass the truck. I'm passing it but not very fast because there's a car in the fast lane ahead of me who is slightly slower than me, when some idiot on a motorcycle cuts me off. Meaning he saw me get over to pass the truck, and did some serious speeding up so that he could pass me on the right, and he needed to fit through a space barely big enough for his motorcycle, cutting my buffer zone by ALL OF IT.
So we both had to slam on our brakes. Him, because he's an idiot and he didn't want to splat into the car in front of me, and me because I hate killing people. I give a little beep on my cute little adorable baby horn that I'm pretty sure was designed to make people laugh at you, just to say "Dude, don't do that. German Engineering sucks and doesn't even come with working cup-holders. IT WILL KILL YOU DEAD."
He turned around and started screaming at me. I was pretty confused, since I wasn't even that upset (since it was probably the only traffic scenario where I would inflict more damage on the other driver than he would on me, and the only one where I wasn't practically guaranteed death). Did I break some sort of traffic code? Are you not allowed to honk at motorcycles? I also know honking is somewhat frowned upon where I live right now. If you are a decent person, you don't generally honk. It's considered rude, I guess. Where I used to live, though, it was pretty common to see someone run a red light, blaring the horn at everyone who had the right of way. That was how you solved everything. People honked when they were angry in a drive-thru. Am I really that terrible of a person?
But anyway, I need to pass this truck before I get close enough to count as tailgating. So I check my mirror, and signal I'm getting in the other lane. I have enough room to get in the lane, even if you account for different speeds and whatnot. (I hate it when someone gets in the left lane in front of you, even though you were obviously going to need to do some serious braking if they did.) I get over and I go to pass the truck. I'm passing it but not very fast because there's a car in the fast lane ahead of me who is slightly slower than me, when some idiot on a motorcycle cuts me off. Meaning he saw me get over to pass the truck, and did some serious speeding up so that he could pass me on the right, and he needed to fit through a space barely big enough for his motorcycle, cutting my buffer zone by ALL OF IT.
So we both had to slam on our brakes. Him, because he's an idiot and he didn't want to splat into the car in front of me, and me because I hate killing people. I give a little beep on my cute little adorable baby horn that I'm pretty sure was designed to make people laugh at you, just to say "Dude, don't do that. German Engineering sucks and doesn't even come with working cup-holders. IT WILL KILL YOU DEAD."
He turned around and started screaming at me. I was pretty confused, since I wasn't even that upset (since it was probably the only traffic scenario where I would inflict more damage on the other driver than he would on me, and the only one where I wasn't practically guaranteed death). Did I break some sort of traffic code? Are you not allowed to honk at motorcycles? I also know honking is somewhat frowned upon where I live right now. If you are a decent person, you don't generally honk. It's considered rude, I guess. Where I used to live, though, it was pretty common to see someone run a red light, blaring the horn at everyone who had the right of way. That was how you solved everything. People honked when they were angry in a drive-thru. Am I really that terrible of a person?
. Plenty of evidence to contrary.
I AM the evil bastard!
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